Maritime · Evidence-led place record
Water Witch
Moorundie, near Old Whipstick Hotel, 3 km downstream from Blanchetown, River Murray, South Australia.
Water Witch was a cutter built in 1835 and lost on 05/12/1842. In May 1841, the Water Witch sailed through the Murray Mouth, and then up the River Murray to Moorundie (near Blanchetown) which was E.J. Eyre’s station established to help keep the peace between local Aboriginal people and European settlers. The vesse
The oddity, explained
Why is Water Witch unusual?
Water Witch appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Water Witch was a cutter built in 1835 and lost on 05/12/1842. In May 1841, the Water Witch sailed through the Murray Mouth, and then up the River Murray to Moorundie (near Blanchetown) which was E.J. Eyre’s station established to help keep the peace between local Aboriginal people and European settlers. The vesse. Heritage Atlas treats that specific classification-and-description combination as the oddity; the score is a comparative discovery signal, not proof of mystery or the supernatural.
Evidence and further exploration
The coordinate, category and description remain tied to the cited source. Comparative oddness helps discovery; it does not add facts that the source does not provide.
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